especially: the leader of an Athenian school of philosophy
2
[French scolarque & German scholarch, from Late Greek scholarchēs]archaic: a school inspector in France or Germany
Word History
Etymology
Late Greek scholarchēs, from Greek scholē school + -archēs -arch
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